Ex-CIA Agent Detained In Panama Reportedly Returing To U.S.
Source: NPR
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July 19, 2013 1:45 PM
The Washington Post reports that a former CIA operative detained in Panama at the request of Italian authorities was back on a plane to the U.S. Friday.
Robert Seldon Lady, the former CIA station chief in Milan, Italy, was arrested in Panama on Thursday in connection with an extraordinary rendition dating from 2003.
"It's our understanding that he's on a plane en route to the United States right now," a senior Obama administration official said, according to the Post.
The newspaper said it was not immediately clear what steps the United States had taken to secure Lady's release.
Lady, along with 23 other U.S. government employees, was sentenced in absentia in Italy to nine years in prison for the abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Mustafa Hasan Nasr as part of an extraordinary rendition program run by the administration of President George W. Bush.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/19/203655138/ex-cia-agent-detained-in-panama-reportedly-returing-to-u-s
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)and behaved in a predictable manner.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)matthews
(497 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)on American soil with the criminal on board.
former9thward
(32,097 posts)All are international fugitives. The U.S. has ignored the case.
matthews
(497 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)have been given a pass and should have been turned over to Italy just like Snowden shouldnt be given a pass for breaking the law.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)shouldnt be unlike some it would appear.
delrem
(9,688 posts)kidnapping, rendering, the whole thing up to and including torture (and now assassination) is totally OK if done by US spooks.
If any actual crime exists, it's to be a whistleblower.
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)And I am not talking about the whistleblowing of the NSA regarding Snowden rather the fact that he broke the law by revealing to China that US intelligence agencies had actually managed to get into computers in China, thats the law that he broke that I am speaking of.
delrem
(9,688 posts)The US may talk big about an "International Court" and "universal rights", but it will not subject itself to international law.
So now, what was that about an equivalence with Snowden?
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)FYI this is another Bush era crime we have chosen to "look forward on"
The Stranger
(11,297 posts)It's getting worse, not better with this President.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)"Berlusconi's response shows his condescending attitude towards an independent judiciary. According to the cable, he told Gates that he "was working hard to resolve the situation." Then, he apparently said that the justice system was "dominated by leftists" and that he had many enemies, especially among the public prosecutors. He also made the prediction that the "courts will come down in our favor" in the appeal proceedings."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/cia-rendition-case-us-pressured-italy-to-influence-judiciary-a-735268.html
Just another one of the many crimes blown open by Bradley Manning. So the government puts him through the wringer and the torturer gets an Italian villa(which the Italians seized at least)
on point
(2,506 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)What a shame. (but what's one more?)
HumansAndResources
(229 posts)... we now have more clear evidence of who our enemies are - cutting through the partisan cloud often used to conceal their machinations, as the Billionaires play (read: fund) both sides against the middle.
Their politician-puppets don't even feign a pretence of respect for "laws" which are "used" only to "punish" those who are a threat to "their" system of exploitation. Those doing their dirty-work - or should I say, "wet-work" - are "above the law," of course. This is what a Criminal Government looks like. Each event of this nature makes that Reality clearer to a increasing percentage of the population.
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